Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758636AbXFAIjs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:39:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753047AbXFAIjl (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:39:41 -0400 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:37532 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752698AbXFAIjk (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:39:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:38:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Anand Jahagirdar cc: Jens Axboe , security@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack In-Reply-To: <25ae38200705312348r3cd02c90h5080617fa1f0a987@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <25ae38200705310645n5e913a91weaa14521908f7989@mail.gmail.com> <20070531134611.GZ32105@kernel.dk> <25ae38200705312348r3cd02c90h5080617fa1f0a987@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 861 Lines: 19 On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Anand Jahagirdar wrote: > when they try to flood the syslog using fork bombing attack, their > messge will be printed only once in syslog and it will show how many > times it has repeated. due to this he will not able to flood the > syslog.and i am using only one single variable in my printk messge so it > is quite not possible to flood the syslog. Your argument is flawed - if the kernel provides more than one possibility to flood the syslogd, the is free to invoke the events interleaved. This trivially prevents syslogd from grouping identical reports together. -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/